Writing about music, the saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. The implication is that even trying is futile and likely to make the person doing so look absurd. The line has been attributed ...

Everything would have been perfectly ordinary that October morning in my freshman writing course at Stanford University. Bright autumn light reflected up from the Main Quad to our third floor. Unfed, ...

This annual anthology brings together the years finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on ...

This annual anthology brings together the year’s finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Awards for the year's best mathematics writing were given on July 27 in Chicago by the Mathematical Association of America at MAA MathFest, one of the largest gathering of ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...

Some scientific discoveries matter because they reveal something new — the double helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes. However, some revelations are profound because ...

A British mathematician and the author of “Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature.” “Call me Ishmael.” This has to be one of the most famous opening sentences ...